Friday, September 30, 2016

No Voot No Playlist

Onlookers ponder floating Charlie head.

Coffeetime, September 30, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Carmell Jones / The Remarkable Carmell Jones / Full Moon and Empty Arms / Pacific Jazz / LA 1961
Kenny Dorham / Showboat / Ol’ Man River / Time / 12.9.60
Bobby Haggart & his Boys / Untitled / V-Disc / 4.7.47
Williams Sisters / Sam, The Old Accordion Man / Victor / 12.18.26
Eddie Williams & his Brown Buddies / Red Head ’n‘ Cadillac / Supreme / LA 1947 / vocal = Floyd Dixon 
Sarah Vaughn / Sarah Sings Soulfully / The Good Life / Roulette / LA 6.6.63 / with a Gerald Wilson arranged sextet with Carmell Jones and Teddy Edwards

set 2
Curtis Fuller / The Opener / Here’s to My Lady / Blue Note / 6.16.57
John Lewis / Ballads for Backgrounds [Grand Encounter] / I Can’t Get Started / Pacific Jazz / 2.10.56
Charlie Shavers Quintet / If I Had You / Vogue / 1945 
Frankie Trumbauer & his Orchestra / Humpty Dumpty / Okeh / 9.28.27
McKinney’s Cotton Pickers / Cherry / Victor / Chicago 7.12.28 / vocal = Jean Napier 
Dinah Washington / No Voot No Boot / Apollo / LA 12.10, 12, 13.45
Johnny “Guitar” Watson / Don’t Touch Me (I’m Gonna Hit That Highway) / RPM / LA 1955

set 3
Freddie Hubbard / Here to Stay / Father and Son / Blue Note / 12.27.62
Ben Webster / Ben Webster and Associates / De-Dar / Verve / 4.9.59
Lonnie Johnson / Playing with the Strings / Okeh / Memphis 2.21.28
The Dreamers / Doin’ the Bow Wow / Standard transcription / LA 8.39 / with the King Cole Trio
Ella Mae Morse / Get On Board Little Chillun / Capitol / Hollywood 7.31.42
Mel Tormé / The Four Winds and the Seven Seas / Capitol / Hollywood 5.49 / with Frank DeVol & his Orchestra & female vocal

set 4
Cal Tjader / Tjader Plays Tjazz / A Minor Goof / Fantasy / Little Theater, Berkeley 6.6.55
George Redman / Moods in Jazz / Slow / Tampa / Hollywood 1954 
Stan Getz & his Four Brothers / Battleground / Prestige / 4.8.49
Modernaires / Autumn Serenade / Columbia / 8.22.45
Peggy Lee / Where Did They Go / Goodbye Again / Capitol / Hollywood 4.6.71
Bobby “Blue” Bland / You’ve Got Bad Intentions / Duke / Houston 1956 / with Bill Harvey’s Band
Sensational Saints of Ohio / Come On / Jobete / 12.60

last soulful song
Ann Sexton & the Masters of Soul / You’ve Been Gone Too Long / Impel [Seventy 7 Records] / Shelby, North Carolina 1971

Friday, September 16, 2016

Treat Her Like a Playlist

The oh so crushworthy Allan Eager
Coffeetime, September 16, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Paul Chambers / Whims of Chambers / We Six / Blue Note / 9.21.56
Red Garland / Avalon / Prestige [unissued] / 3.16.61
The Three Suns / Crazy Rhythm / V-Disc 616B / 4.46
Gene Austin / (I’ve Grown So Lonesome) Thinking of You / Victor / 12.31.26
Paul Gayten / Broadway’s on Fire / 1950 / Regal / vocal = “Broadway” Bill Cook
June Christy / Ballads for Night People / Night People / Capitol / Hollywood 1959

set 2
Red Garland / It Might As Well Be Spring / Prestige [unissued] / 6.27.58
Bud Shank / Ballads for Backgrounds [The Bud Shank Quartet] / Nature Boy / Pacific Jazz / LA 1956
Anson Weeks & his Hotel Mark Hopkins Orchestra / Medley: On the Alamo/My Ideal/I’ll Get By / radio transcription / San Francisco 1932 
Lil Armstrong & her Swing Orchestra / Just a Thrill / Decca / 10.27.36 
Danny Kaye / Minnie the Moocher / Columbia / 1941
Sammy Hagan & The Viscounts / Don’t Cry / Capitol / Hollywood 1957 

set 3
Sonny Criss / I’ll Catch the Sun / I’ll Catch the Sun / Prestige / 1.20.69
Sonny Clark / Sonny Clark Trio / Tadd’s Delight [alt take] / Blue Note / 11.13.57
Dizzy Gillespie / Our Delight / Savoy / 6.10.46 http://bit.ly/2cP5U70
The Mills Brothers / Rhythm Saved the World / Decca / 6.23.36
Artie Shaw & his Orchestra / Who Blew Out the Flame / radio broadcast / live, The Blue Room, Lincoln Hotel 12.6.38 / vocal = Helen Forrest
Jimmy Witherspoon / Blues Around the Clock / You Made Me Love You / Prestige / 11.5.63

set 4
Gerry Mulligan / The Gerry Mulligan Songbook, Volume 1 / Turnstile / World Pacific/Pacific Jazz / 12.4 & 5.57  
Stan Getz / There’s a Small Hotel / Prestige / 1.6.50
Al Killian / The Creep [aka Blow, Blow, Blow] / AFRS Jubilee #243 / Hollywood 10.17.47 
Walter Huston / September / soundtrack movie “Knickerbocker Holiday” / United Artists / Hollywood 1944
King Cole Trio / Please Consider Me / MacGregor transcription / Hollywood 5.24.44
Pearl Bailey / Naughty but Nice / Around the World with Me / Roulette / 1960
Paramount Singers / You’ve Got to Bow Down Before God / Coral / San Francisco 1952

last soulful song
Temptations / Treat Her Like a Lady / live / 1986 (3:00) https://youtu.be/NvI8ko7fU2A


Friday, September 09, 2016

You Come In Here, Playlist

Proposed YouTube hit show: Eye Makeup Tips from Tony & Anna

Coffeetime, September 9, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Sonny Clark / Sonny Clark Trio / Two Bass Hit [alt take] / Blue Note / 11.13.57
Tina Brooks / Back to the Tracks / The Blues and I / Blue Note [unissued - Mosaic] / 10.20.60
Benny Goodman Sextet / High Falutin’ / Capitol / Hollywood 12.9.47
The Revelers / Hallelujah! / Victor / 4.25.27
Chuck Willis / Caldonia / Okeh / 2.27.52
Ella Fitzgerald / Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Rodgers and Hart Song Book / Bewitched / Verve / LA 8.29.56

set 2
Charlie Rouse / We Paid Our Dues / When Sunny Gets Blue / Epic / 7.13.61
Clark Terry / Serenade to a Bus Seat / Stardust / Riverside / 4.27.57
Art Pepper / Modern Art / Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered / Intro / Hollywood 12.28.56
Ruth Etting / Home / Banner/Oriole/Perfect  [ARC] / 12.11.31
Hot Lips Page / You Come in Here, Woman / Dial / LA 9.7.45
Mickey Rooney / Mickey Rooney Sings George M. Cohan / Give My Regards to Broadway / RCA / LA 1957

set 3
Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis & Johnny Griffin / Griff & Lock / Good Bait / Jazzland / 11.4, 10.60
Bill Harris / The Harris Touch / Rock Bottom Blues / EmArcy / 5.2.57 / with Hank Jones on piano
Pete Johnson / Pete’s Blues / Page Mr. Trumpet / National / 1.31.46
Etta Jones / Ain’t No Hurry, Baby (With a Gal Like Me) / Victor / 3.11.47 / with J.C. Heard & his Orchestra
Jubalaires / Jube’s Blues / Standard transcription / late 1940s
Jerry Orbach / Off Broadway / Try to Remember / MGM / 1962

set 4
Howard Roberts / Color Him Funky / When Lights Are Low / Capitol / Hollywood 2.12, 13.63 
Shorty Rogers & his Giants / The Swinging Mr. Rogers / Trickleydidlier / Atlantic / Hollywood 3.1, 3.55
Dave Tough / Loved Walked In / Jamboree / 1.9.46
King Cole Trio / You Call It Madness, But I Call It Love / MacGregor Transcription / LA 1.45
Etta James / Be My Lovey Dovey / Modern [unissued] / LA 1955
Anthony Newley & Anna Quayle / Original Broadway Cast Recording: Stop the World I Want to Get Off / Someone Nice Like You  / London / 1961
Jubalaires / When the Moon Goes Down / Standard transcription / late 1940s

last soulful song
Gene Chandler & Jerry Butler / Gene & Jerry, One & One / Be Yourself / Mercury / Chicago 9.30, 10.1  &2.70

Friday, September 02, 2016

Playlist By the Sea

Over your shoulder! Ernie Morris is the spell-maker.

Coffeetime, September 2, 2016, Angelynn Grant

set 1
Cannonball Adderley / Jazz Workshop Revisited / Marney / Prestige /  live, Jazz Workshop, San Francisco 9.23.62
Blue Mitchell / The Cup Bearers / Capers / Riverside / 8.28, 30.62
Capitol International Jazzmen / You Can Depend on Me / Capitol / Hollywood 3.30.45
The B.F. Goodrich Silvertown Cord Orchestra / I’m Lonely Without You / Victor / 6.21.26 / vocal = The Silver-Masked Tenor [Joseph M. White]
Lucky Millinder & his Orchestra / Let Me Off Uptown / Decca / 6.11.41 / vocal = Trevor Bacon
Morgana King / The Greatest Songs Ever Swung / And the Angels Sing / RCA Camden / 1959 / with Ernie Wilkins & his Orchestra

set 2
Art Blakey & the Messengers / ’S Make It / Lament for Stacy / Limelight / Hollywood 11.15, 16, 25.64
Sauter-Finegan Orchestra / Under Analysis / In a Mist / RCA Victor / 1957
Joe Venuti / Dark Eyes / radio transcription, Bing Crosby GE show #20 / Palm Springs 1.31.53 
Ernie Morris / In The Mood / AFRS Jubilee #9 / radio transcription / LA 1.43 / intro by Ernie “Bubbles” Whitman
Rosa Henderson / Get It Fixed / Vocalion / 3.21.28 http://www.redhotjazz.com/rosahenderson.html
Kay Starr / Stormy Weather / Capitol / Hollywood 3.30.45 / with the Capitol International Jazzmen
The Keynotes / Now I Know / Apollo / 6.5.65
John Holt / Wooden Heart / Treasure Isle / Kingston, Jamaica 1969 / with Tommy McCook & the Supersonics

set 3
Stanley Turrentine / Rough ’N’ Tumble / And Satisfy / Blue Note / 7.1.66
Duke Jordan / Les Liasons Dangereuse / No Problem / Charlie Parker Records / 1.12.62
Toni Harper / Cinderella Baby / Columbia / LA 2.49 / with Eddie Beal & his Orchestra 
The Larks / Ooh… It Feels So Good / Apollo / 3.27.51  
Mel Tormé / Songs for Any Taste / Home By the Sea / Bethlehem / live, Crescendo Club, LA 2.22.57

set 4
Victor Feldman / Suite Sixteen / Brawl for All / Contemporary / London 9.55
Nick Travis / The Panic Is On / Cohn Pone / RCA Victor / 1954
Hildegarde / Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off / Columbia / London 1937 / with Carroll Gibbons & his Orchestra
Nat “King” Cole & his Trio / You’re Looking at Me / Capitol / Hollywood 8.15.56 / with Willie Smith on alto sax
Pat Carroll & Barbara Ruick / Stepsisters’ Lament / from soundtrack CBS broadcast of Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella / Hollywood 11.2, 5, 6.64/ premiered on CBS TV on 2.22.65 
Golden Gate Quartet / What a Time / Bluebird / Andrew Jackson Hotel, Rock Hill, South Carolina 10.6.39

last soulful song
Barbara Lewis / Baby, I’m Yours / How Can I Say Goodbye / Atlantic 1965